diff --git a/module/zfs/dsl_scan.c b/module/zfs/dsl_scan.c
index 28e119f43..f1621c9c9 100644
--- a/module/zfs/dsl_scan.c
+++ b/module/zfs/dsl_scan.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2011, 2018 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright 2016 Gary Mills
  * Copyright (c) 2017 Datto Inc.
- * Copyright 2017 Joyent, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2019 Joyent, Inc.
  */
 
 #include <sys/dsl_scan.h>
@@ -955,14 +955,16 @@ dsl_scan_done(dsl_scan_t *scn, boolean_t complete, dmu_tx_t *tx)
 		 * will find the drives that need to be resilvered
 		 * when the machine reboots and start the resilver then.
 		 */
-		boolean_t resilver_needed =
-		    dsl_scan_clear_deferred(spa->spa_root_vdev, tx);
-		if (resilver_needed) {
-			spa_history_log_internal(spa,
-			    "starting deferred resilver", tx,
-			    "errors=%llu",
-			    (u_longlong_t)spa_get_errlog_size(spa));
-			spa_async_request(spa, SPA_ASYNC_RESILVER);
+		if (spa_feature_is_enabled(spa, SPA_FEATURE_RESILVER_DEFER)) {
+			boolean_t resilver_needed =
+			    dsl_scan_clear_deferred(spa->spa_root_vdev, tx);
+			if (resilver_needed) {
+				spa_history_log_internal(spa,
+				    "starting deferred resilver", tx,
+				    "errors=%llu",
+				    (u_longlong_t)spa_get_errlog_size(spa));
+				spa_async_request(spa, SPA_ASYNC_RESILVER);
+			}
 		}
 	}